Computational Science and Engineering Master of Science
The School of Engineering and Applied Science will offer a Master of Science in Computational Science and Engineering beginning in the fall of 2009. This degree is intended to meet the need for engineers and scientists who are not only well trained in an engineering or scientific discipline, but also in the computational areas that are needed to support these disciplines.
This degree is a 33 to 37-credit hour, thesis-based program. Courses are distributed among the following categories: a computational core (12-16 credit hours), science or engineering courses (12 credit hours), and thesis and research seminar (9 credit hours). Completion of the computational core requires competency in data structures and algorithms, simulation of physical and engineering systems, optimization, high performance computing, and numerical methods.
Concentrations:
- Communication System Modeling and Simulation (in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- Computational Mechanics (in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering) in the School of Engineering and Applied Science
- Bioinformatics (supported by the Department of Computer Science and Systems Analysis in SEAS and by the Microbiology, Botany, and Zoology Departments in the College of Arts and Science.)
For the two engineering concentrations, successful applicants will typically have a BS in the associated engineering field. The bioinformatics concentration is aimed at students with a BS in computer science.
This is a thesis-based degree. Students will work with a faculty advisor on a research problem whose solution requires a computational approach.
